Brett Kosinski wrote:
>> > Epias and MPEG-4...
>> how about HD? can the Epias as a FE handle HD?
>>> Well, there are a number of Unichrome chipsets that are capable of
> doing XvMC-accelerated decoding of HD MPEG2. However, you need to
> make sure you get the right chipset. See here:
>>http://wiki.openchrome.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=HardwareCaveats>> Specifically, the Unichrome Group B chipsets can do up to 2048x2048.
>> MPEG4, OTOH, is a totally different story. I'd be quite surprised if
> any EPIA could do realtime decode of HD MPEG4. A 1.2 Ghz (which is
> where I believe the C7 currently tops out) simply isn't enough, AFAIK.
>> Brett.
>Yeah, that would be great if it could. But considering people with 3GHz
machines get huge processor usage while decoding HD mpeg4 I'd be
surprised. I only need to do around 500x480. I'm going to build the
thing anyway, because most of my content is mpeg2. It only switches
over to the software card when absolutely necessary. If the M10000
can't handle the mpeg4, then I'll just go downstairs to watch it :P, or
lower the resolution down to something it can handle.
BTW here is a review of the M10000 from mini-ITX, that no doubt has been
posted to this list many times already:
http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/nehemiah/default.asp?page=12
It shows it just barely handling some harder stuff like dvix4 and xvid.
But according to the reviewer the M10000 handles it just fine (not HD
resolution, more like 720x480 resolution here).
Raphael